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Barker: so your plan hinges on the first harry potter being so good that kids have to read the whole series?
Rowling: it worked before
Barker: uh huh
Barker: in the 90s
Barker: today's kids are different, joanne
Barker: look at joe
Joe Hill: i love spinning fidgets and buying widgets
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Rowling: bah! harry potter is a timeless tale!
Rowling: it will sstill appeal to today'sss kidss
Rowling: and if it doesssn't
Rowling: i know a certain government that'ss going to be getting a call
Rowling: the UK government
Poe: but joanne
Rowling: they work for me!!
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JK Rowling: hello today's children
Rowling: can i interessst you in a harry potter?
Rowling: itss a rollicking adventure sstory about a gender conforming boy who lovess sssport
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Joe Hill: i only read stories about my blorbo
Grady Hendrix: [doing sick flip on skateboard] how much RAM megaherz computer does it have
Dean Koontz: i need content warnings on every page, just in case a dog dies. and if there is a dog in it, then i want to be able to pet it
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JK Rowling: confound it!!!
Rowling: thessse modern children will be the death of me!!
Barker: ha ha Rowling: SHUT UP
@bitterkarella - can I pet the dog!!!!!!!!
Oct 22, 2026, 9:32 PM@bitterkarella huh, it never dawned on me that Harry Potter is, indeed, a goddamn jock